Labour says the 'small boats nightmare' must end after six people died trying to cross the Channel.
, he said: "We have a moral duty, both to our own citizens and those asylum seekers, to act."
The new Illegal Migration Bill, spearheaded by Ms Braverman, is central to the government's plans to stop small boats crossing the Channel. It places a legal duty on the home secretary to detain and remove anyone entering the UK illegally. French sea minister Hervé Berville said: "While we mourn these victims ... it is the responsibility of human traffickers - of criminals - who send young people, women, adults, to their death on these maritime routes that are dangerous and lethal."
Many of the migrants on board are believed to have come from Afghanistan, and others from Sudan. It also understood children were among them.
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